Archive for February, 2010
Dawn and Dusk
February 17th, 2010 | Author: Haider al-Khateeb
The following pictures have been taken in Muscat/Sultanate of Oman. It was a time were nothing was more pleasant than going to the beach in the early morning to enjoy the sunrise and play football!
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Exploring Idle Scan/Zombie Scan
February 13th, 2010 | Author: Haider al-Khateeb
Idle scan or Zombie scanning as it is referred to sometimes, is the newest and stealthiest TCP scanning technique supported by the famous Nmap. What makes it quite interesting, is that an attacker can use it to scan a target and blame it on an innocent Zombie machine.
Before explaining how it can be done, let me start with a brief explanation of the Three-Way Handshake used to start TCP connections between any two computers.
Few designs for Iraq
February 12th, 2010 | Author: Haider al-Khateeb
Iraq is getting ready to elect its new parliament, away from my study, I spent some time designing something for the elections.
Three designs for Iraq’s flag (click on the images to enlarge) followed by few banners to support my favourite list in the elections “337” leaded by our current PM Nouri al-Maliki.
Share Windows Internet Connection with Linux
February 9th, 2010 | Author: Haider al-Khateeb
This article is for you if you have internet connection in your Windows and would like to share it with a Linux box as well. To do that your windows machine should have two network cards connected, one for the internet service and the other one to connect to your other machine or to a hub/switch if you want to share it with more computers.
Install BackTrack in VMware Workstation
February 6th, 2010 | Author: Haider al-Khateeb
You first need to download BackTrack’s VMWare Image for the final available release from the following link:
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/
At the time of writing this post the final release is BackTrack 4 so the download gave me the following zip file:
bt4-final-vm.zip
Now we should do the following:
